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Monday, 15 July 2013

Note however that most apparently spatial
cohesion is in terms of metaphorical space, for example, there in there you’re wrong;
cf expressions like on those grounds, on
that point. These are actually
expressions of Matter. Many conjunctive expressions of the
expanding kind are also in origin spatial metaphors; for example, in the first place, on the other hand (hand involves a double metaphor: ‘part
of the body’ — ‘side’ [on my right hand] — ‘side of an argument’).